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http://www.businessinsider.com/6-people-were-stabbed-at-a-gay-pride-event-in-jerusalem-2015-76 people were stabbed at a gay pride event in Jerusalemhttp://www.businessinsider.com/6-people-were-stabbed-at-a-gay-pride-event-in-jerusalem-2015-7
Thu, 30 Jul 2015 13:02:34 -0400Allyn Fisher-Ilan
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/55ba580d371d2212008bb43d-3109-2332/rtx127g3.jpg" alt="jerusalem gay pride" data-mce-source="Ronen Zvulun/Reuters" data-mce-caption="Participants hold rainbow flags during the 12th annual gay pride parade in Jerusalem August 1, 2013." /></p><p>JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Orthodox Jewish assailant stabbed and injured six participants of an annual Gay Pride march in Jerusalem on Thursday, police and witnesses said.</p>
<p>It was the worst attack in years on the event in Jerusalem, a city where the religious population is more prominent than in other parts of Israel.</p>
<p>"I saw an ultra-Orthodox youth stabbing everyone in his way," said Shai Aviyor, a witness interviewed on Israel's Channel 2 television.</p>
<p>"We heard people screaming, everyone ran for cover, and there were bloodied people on the ground," Aviyor said.</p>
<p>A paramedic with the Magen David Adom rescue service said at least six people had been injured, and at least two appeared to be in serious condition.</p>
<p>Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said a suspected ultra-Orthodox Jewish man had stabbed at least four of the marchers.</p>
<p>The march, which attracts thousands of participants, has long been a focus of tension between Israel's predominantly secular majority and the ultra-Orthodox Jewish minority, who object to public displays of homosexuality.</p>
<p>Oded Fried, the head of a leading gay rights group, said the march would go on despite the attack. "Our struggle for equality only intensifies in the face of such events," he said.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/6-people-were-stabbed-at-a-gay-pride-event-in-jerusalem-2015-7#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/song-made-using-coins-drummer-music-video-2015-7">This drummer created a whole song by only using the sound of coins</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/uae-woman-who-killed-an-american-teacher-sentence-to-death-2015-6UAE woman who killed an American teacher sentenced to deathhttp://www.businessinsider.com/uae-woman-who-killed-an-american-teacher-sentence-to-death-2015-6
Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:21:00 -0400Barbara Tasch
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/55915754eab8eab07ffdc42f-514-310/screen shot 2015-06-29 at 10.30.23 am.png" border="0" alt="A CCTV image shows a fully veiled woman walking through a shopping mall in Abu Dhabi, the chief suspect in the murder of a US teacher on December 3, 2014"></p><p>An Emirati woman who stabbed and killed an American teacher last December was just sentenced to death by a United Arab Emirates court,&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://www.thenational.ae/uae/courts/death-sentence-for-reem-island-killer">Abu Dhabi newspaper The National&nbsp;reports</a>.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p>The murder&nbsp;of Ibolya Ryan, an American teacher, took place in a shopping mall bathroom last December in Abu Dhabi. The person responsible,&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Alaa Bader al-Hashemi, was found guilty of stabbing the teacher to death and of "creating a handmade bomb" she placed in front of the home of an Egyptian-American doctor.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span>The court had ordered Hashemi to undergo psychiatric tests after she had told the court she had "unreal visions" and was suffering from a chronic mental illness. The tests, however, found she was aware of her actions and did not suffer from a mental illness, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/29/us-emirates-usa-killing-idUSKCN0P90XV20150629">according to Reuters</a>.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span>Fully aware the funds would be used in terrorist activities, s</span>he was also found guilty of sending money to Al-Qaeda in Yemen, according to The National.</span></span></span></p>
<p>As the sentence was announced, Hashemi showed no emotions, <a href="https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/uae-woman-sentenced-death-killing-us-teacher-100831444.html">according to AFP</a>. Since the ruling was made by the Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi it cannot be appealed.</p>
<p>International media have not been allowed to report from her trial, which began in March.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/uae-woman-who-killed-an-american-teacher-sentence-to-death-2015-6#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/new-air-force-one-tour-boeing-private-jet-2015-5">Take a tour of the $367 million jet that will soon be called Air Force One</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/r-two-stabbed-wounded-at-tufts-university-frat-house-2015-5Two people stabbed in frat house at Tufts Universityhttp://www.businessinsider.com/r-two-stabbed-wounded-at-tufts-university-frat-house-2015-5
Sun, 31 May 2015 10:57:00 -0400Fiona Ortiz
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/556b211c69bedd1d2f22441e-1200-924/westhall-tuftsuniversity-img0959jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="West_Hall_ _Tufts_University_ _IMG_0959.JPG" style="color: #000000;"></p><p>(Reuters) - Two people were stabbed and injured inside a fraternity house at Tufts University near Boston on Sunday morning, the university said on its web site.</p>
<p>The university said the victims are not affiliated with the school and that it did not appear to be a random crime.</p>
<p>The two victims, who were not immediately named, were taken to hospital after police responded to reports of a stabbing at the Delta Tau Delta fraternity on the campus of the university in Medford, Massachusetts.</p>
<p>Early in the morning Tufts alerted people on campus to take shelter while police searched the area. The alert was lifted after the campus search was completed, but the school said an "enhanced police presence" would continue.</p>
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<p>(Reporting by Fiona Ortiz; Editing by Crispian Balmer)</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/new-haven-police-investigating-stabbing-suicide-2015-5" >Recent Yale graduate reportedly stabbed a current student before killing himself</a></strong></p>
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Sat, 30 May 2015 01:04:00 -0400Dana Ferguson
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/5569344becad048467a0e1b4-1200-924/dustin-diamond-court-3.jpg" border="0" alt="dustin diamond court"></p><p>PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. (AP) — TV actor&nbsp;Dustin&nbsp;Diamond&nbsp;was convicted Friday of two misdemeanors stemming from a barroom fight, but a Wisconsin jury cleared the former "Saved by the Bell" actor of the most serious felony charge.</p>
<p>The jury's verdict came just hours after the 38-year-old actor testified that he never intended to stab anyone in the fight last Christmas Day.</p>
<p>He had pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of recklessly endangering public safety, plus two misdemeanors — carrying a concealed weapon and disorderly conduct.</p>
<p>Diamond, who played the character Screech on the popular 1990s show, said some people had wanted to shake his hand and pose for photos at the bar, but that others were badgering him and his girlfriend, Amanda Schutz. He said he was trying to scare bar patrons in Port Washington after his girlfriend was punched in the face.</p>
<p>"I felt like we were being set up for antagonistic purposes," he said.</p>
<p>Witnesses testified that Schutz pushed one woman at the bar and grabbed another woman's hand, initiating the incident. Schutz also faces a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge.</p>
<p>Diamond&nbsp;said he tried to help Schutz and took out his pocketknife to deter the group from hurting her more.</p>
<p>The man who was stabbed, 25-year-old Casey Smet, testified Thursday that he didn't know he had been stabbed until he had left the bar and was talking to police.</p>
<p>After maintaining a serious facade during most of the trial,&nbsp;Diamond&nbsp;grinned Friday when a defense attorney asked if he liked being compared to the character Screech.&nbsp;Diamond&nbsp;said he, like his character, enjoyed nerdy things. And&nbsp;Diamond&nbsp;said he liked being identified in public as the goofy television character.</p>
<p>"That means they love you,"&nbsp;Diamond&nbsp;said. "That means you're doing your job."</p>
<p>No apparent "Saved by the Bell" fans sat in the galleries during the three-day trial. But another apparent fan,Diamond's&nbsp;defense attorney Thomas Alberti, wrote "Good Luck to&nbsp;Dustin&nbsp;&amp; Amanda" on his car window Wednesday ahead of the trial. Circuit Court Judge Paul Malloy scolded Alberti and told him to remove it because it was "inappropriate."</p>
<p>Port Washington is 25 miles north of Milwaukee.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/jury-convicts-saved-by-the-bell-actor-dustin-diamond-of-misdemeanors-in-stabbing-2015-5#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/russian-models-pose-with-bear-2015-4">Two models in Russia just posed with a 1,400-pound bear</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/knife-attack-on-us-ambassador-exposes-koreas-violent-divide-2015-3Knife attack on US ambassador exposes Korea's violent dividehttp://www.businessinsider.com/knife-attack-on-us-ambassador-exposes-koreas-violent-divide-2015-3
Thu, 05 Mar 2015 06:51:00 -0500FOSTER KLUG and KIM TONG-HYUNG
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/54f841e46bb3f713436eb467-480-/south-korea-ambassador.jpg" border="0" alt="South Korea Ambassador" width="480"></p><p>SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A knife attack Thursday that injured the U.S. ambassador to South Korea is only the latest act of political violence in a deeply divided country where some protesters portray their causes as matters of life and death.</p>
<p>The slashing of Ambassador Mark Lippert's face and arm was an extreme example, but America infuriates some leftist South Koreans because of its role in Korea's turbulent modern history.</p>
<p>Washington backed the South during the 1950-53 Korean War against the communist North, still stations nearly 30,000 troops here and holds annual military drills with Seoul. That's something anti-U.S. activists view as a major obstacle to their goal of an eventual reunification of the rival Koreas.</p>
<p>Purported U.S. interference in Korean affairs appeared to be the main grievance of the man police named as the assailant, a 55-year-old named Kim Ki-jong who has a long history of anti-U.S. protests.</p>
<p>"South and North Korea should be reunified," Kim shouted as he slashed Lippert with a 25-centimeter (10 inch) knife, police and witnesses said.</p>
<p>The attack left a gash on Lippert's face that started under his right cheekbone and extended diagonally across his cheek toward his jawbone. He received 80 stitches to close that 11-centimeter (4-inch) long, 3-centimeter deep (about an inch) wound, Chung Nam-sik of Severance Hospital told reporters. Lippert, 42, also had surgery on his arm to repair damage to tendons and nerves, and was in stable condition at the hospital.</p>
<p>About nine hours after the attack, Lippert posted on his Twitter account that he was "doing well and in great spirits" and would be back "ASAP" to advance the U.S.-South Korean alliance.</p>
<p>Kim is well-known among police and activists as one of a hard-core group of protesters willing to use violence to highlight their causes. Such protesters often speak of their actions in terms of a war, of a struggle to the death.</p>
<p>Kim told police that he attacked Lippert to protest annual U.S.-South Korean military drills that started Monday — exercises that Pyongyang has long maintained are preparations for an invasion. Kim said the drills, which Seoul and Washington say are defensive only, ruined efforts for reconciliation between the two Koreas, officials at Seoul's Jongno police station said in a televised briefing.</p>
<p><img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/54f7a4b26bb3f7ae4e71c29e-1200-800/south korea ambassado_mill (1).jpg" border="0" alt="Mark Lippert"></p>
<p>North&nbsp;Korea's&nbsp;state controlled media later crowed that Kim's "knife slashes of justice" were "a deserved punishment on war maniac U.S." and reflected the&nbsp;South&nbsp;Korean people's&nbsp;protest&nbsp;against the U.S. for driving the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war because of the joint military drills.</p>
<p>Police were aware of Kim's&nbsp;history&nbsp;of&nbsp;violent&nbsp;behavior, according to a Seoul police official who didn't want to be named, citing office rules. However, they didn't consider the possibility that Kim, who has ties to the Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation, the group that hosted the breakfast meeting where Lippert was attacked, would show up for the event, said the official.</p>
<p>U.S. ambassadors have security details, but their size largely depends on the threat level of the post. Seoul is not considered to be a particularly high threat post despite its proximity to the North Korean border. It's not clear how many guards Lippert had, but they would have been fewer than the ambassadors in most of the Mideast.</p>
<p>Seoul's Foreign Ministry said it was the first time a foreign ambassador stationed in modern&nbsp;South&nbsp;Korea&nbsp;had been injured in a&nbsp;violent&nbsp;attack.</p>
<p>However, the Japanese ambassador narrowly escaped injury in 2010 when Kim threw a piece of concrete at him, according to police. Kim, who was&nbsp;protesting&nbsp;Japan's claim to small disputed islands that are occupied by South&nbsp;Korea, hit the ambassador's secretary instead, media reports said, and was sentenced to a three-year suspended prison term over the attack.</p>
<p>The website of the Woorimadang activist group that Kim heads describes the group's long&nbsp;history&nbsp;of anti-U.S.protests. Photos show him and other activists rallying last week in front of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul to&nbsp;protest the annual U.S.-South Korean military drills, which will run until the end of April.</p>
<p>South&nbsp;Korea's&nbsp;Unification Ministry says that Kim visited North&nbsp;Korea&nbsp;with a civic group eight times between 2006 and 2007, during a period of inter-Korean cooperation under a liberal government in Seoul.</p>
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/54f7b810eab8ea5e2a0297b1-1200-1500/south korea ambassado_mill (2).jpg" border="0" alt="Suspect in Mark Lippert attack">In a Facebook posting, Yoon Meehyang, who heads an activist group representing&nbsp;South&nbsp;Korean women forced to serve as wartime sex slaves for Japanese troops, said Kim was a consistent trouble-maker at the group's rallies several years ago.</p>
<p>Yoon and other activists expressed worries that the attack on Lippert would harm the public image of peaceful leftist protesters, or prompt the conservative government to suppress their activities.</p>
<p>Small to medium-sized demonstrations regularly occur across Seoul, and most are peaceful.</p>
<p>But scuffles with police do break out occasionally, and the burning of effigies of North Korean and Japanese leaders is also common. Some demonstrators have also previously severed their own fingers, thrown bodily fluids at embassies and tried to self-immolate.</p>
<p>Lippert became ambassador last October and has been a regular presence on social media and in speeches and presentations during his time in Seoul. His wife gave birth here and the couple gave their son a Korean middle name.</p>
<p>He will need treatment at the hospital for the next three or four days and may experience sensory problems in his left hand for several months, said Chung, the hospital official.</p>
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<p>AP writers Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.</p>
<p>Follow Foster Klug, AP's Seoul bureau chief, at https://twitter.com/APKlug and Kim Tong-hyung at<a href="https://twitter.com/KimTongHyung">https://twitter.com/KimTongHyung</a></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/knife-attack-on-us-ambassador-exposes-koreas-violent-divide-2015-3#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-headphones-tricks-2015-2">14 things you didn't know your iPhone headphones could do</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/r-former-saved-by-the-bell-actor-dustin-diamond-arrested-in-wisconsin-2014-12Screech From 'Saved By The Bell' Was Arrested For Allegedly Stabbing A Man At A Barhttp://www.businessinsider.com/r-former-saved-by-the-bell-actor-dustin-diamond-arrested-in-wisconsin-2014-12
Fri, 26 Dec 2014 17:48:00 -0500
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/549e1422eab8eaa570b8d9bb-600-/dustin-diamond-arrested-screech-mugshot.jpg" border="0" alt="dustin diamond arrested screech mugshot" width="600"></p><p>(Reuters) - Former "Saved by the Bell" actor Dustin Diamond, who played the nerdy "Screech" on the high school sitcom, has been arrested for stabbing a man with a switchblade at a bar north of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, police said on Friday.</p>
<p>Dustin Diamond, 37, and his girlfriend were arrested shortly after they drove away from the Grand Ave Saloon in the town of Port Washington following the altercation on Thursday night, police said in a statement.</p>
<p>The man Diamond is suspected of stabbing at the saloon was treated for wounds that were not life threatening and he is recovering at home, according to Port Washington police.</p>
<p>Celebrity website TMZ showed video of a man it identified as Diamond standing next to a table soccer board while someone exclaims that he has a knife.</p>
<p>Police arrested Diamond for recklessly endangering safety, carrying a concealed weapon and possessing a switchblade knife, said an Ozaukee County Sheriff's Office jail clerk.</p>
<p>He appeared in court on Friday and his bail was set at $10,000, with his next court appearance scheduled for Dec. 29, the clerk said.</p>
<p>Diamond's public defender could not be reached for comment.</p>
<p>The former child actor's girlfriend was charged with disorderly conduct, police said.</p>
<p>Diamond played socially awkward but brainy student Samuel "Screech" Powers as a cast member in the sitcom "Saved by the Bell," which ran from 1989 to 1993 and was popular with children and teenagers.</p>
<p>Since then, he has had a number of smaller television roles and has made appearances on reality programs and game shows.</p>
<p>He lived in Port Washington as recently as 2009, according to an article from that year in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.</p>
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<p>(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles; Editing by Sandra Maler)</p>
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Sun, 21 Dec 2014 08:37:40 -0500Jane Wardell and Morag MacKinnon
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5494088fecad04273646e3d5-480-/australia-stabbing-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Australia stabbing" width="480"></p><p>SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian mother has been charged with the murder of eight children, seven of them hers, two days after their bodies were found in a home in the city of Cairns.</p>
<p>Police said the 37-year-old woman was charged in a bedside hearing at a Cairns hospital, where she is recovering from stab wounds, with the murder of four girls and four boys, aged from 18 months to 15 years.</p>
<p>"It is simply eight counts of murder, one for each victim," Detective Inspector Bruno Asnicar told reporters.</p>
<p>Asnicar, who said the five fathers of the children had been informed, said police were investigating whether drug use was involved in the tragedy.</p>
<p>"I want to make clear I'm not dismissing it," he said. "I'm saying that I can't discuss whether it's true or not."</p>
<p>Police have taken more than 100 witness statements and autopsies of the children, the eighth of whom was a niece of the charged woman, are expected to be completed later on Sunday, Asnicar said.</p>
<p>The killing of the children, whose bodies were discovered on Friday, shocked a nation already reeling from the siege and killing of two hostages at cafe in the city of Sydney earlier in the week.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Tony Abbott called the events in Cairns "heartbreaking" and acknowledged the "trying days" for Australia.</p>
<p>As services and memorials continued for the victims of the Sydney siege over the weekend, relatives and friends of the children gathered at a makeshift shrine of flowers near their home in the Cairns suburb of Manoora.</p>
<p>Police did not identify the charged woman, citing the need to protect the identity of the children, a normal procedure in Australian criminal cases.</p>
<p>Police also noted that it was culturally insensitive and a breach of cultural protocols of the indigenous Torres Strait Islander community, to which the family belongs, to release the names and photos of the dead children.</p>
<p>Asnicar said police would be releasing less information about the case from now on as the charging of the mother meant it was now before the courts.</p>
<p>"It's going to be a long hard road" to the bring the case to a conclusion, he said.</p>
<p>The Cairns family were members of the Torres Strait Islander community, a group of indigenous Australians viewed as distinct from the broader Aboriginal community due to their origins on islands off the tropical Queensland coast.</p>
<p>(Editing by Robert Birsel)</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-australian-mother-charged-with-murder-of-eight-children-2014-12#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/doctors-say-slender-man-suspect-is-incompetent-to-stand-trial-2014-7Doctors Say One 12-Year-Old 'Slender Man Stabbing' Suspect Isn't Competent To Stand Trial http://www.businessinsider.com/doctors-say-slender-man-suspect-is-incompetent-to-stand-trial-2014-7
Wed, 02 Jul 2014 15:05:41 -0400Maya Kosoff
<p><span><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/53b455bceab8ea0920331820-1200-924/slender-man.jpg" border="0" alt="Slender Man" />Doctors have said one of the two 12-year-old Wisconsin girls who allegedly stabbed her friend to please the fictional internet character&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/slender-man/" target="_blank">Slender Man</a> is<a href="http://wdtn.com/2014/07/02/slender-man-stabbing-suspect-found-incompetent/" target="_blank"> mentally incompetent to stand</a> trial, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.</p>
<p><span>Two doctors concluded the girl's medical evaluations showed she was mentally incompetent to proceed in her defense, her lawyers said.<br /></span></p>
<p class="p1">The court still has to decide whether the girl can stand trial. Judge&nbsp;Michael Bohren&nbsp;ordered another competency hearing for the girl on August 1.&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">He also ordered an examination that would focus on her mental state at the time of the alleged stabbing, <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-wisconsin-girls-slenderman-20140702,0,4845121.story" target="_blank">her defense attorney&nbsp;Anthony Cotton&nbsp;said</a>, according to wire reported cited in the Chicago Tribune. <br /></span></p>
<p class="p1">Cotton said he thinks the case should be moved to juvenile courts, away from media attention.&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="p1">In the state of Wisconsin, all <span>attempted homicide cases</span>&nbsp;involving suspects who are at least 10 years old must start in adult courts. Then, lawyers can ask for the case to be moved to a juvenile court.&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">If convicted for attempted homicide as adults, the girls face up to 60 years; if convicted as juveniles, they could be put in jail until they're 25.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">The other girl charged in the stabbing case appeared in court on Wednesday, and her case was set for August 1 as well.</span></p>
<p><span><span><span></span><span>According to their peers, the girls&nbsp;</span><span>were both good friends with their victim, and planned the murder attempt for many months.&nbsp;<span>They reportedly told investigators they planned to go live in a Wisconsin forest with Slender Man after the stabbing.</span></span></span></span></p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/slender-man-stabbing-911-call-2014-6" >Released 911 Call In Grisly 'Slender Man Stabbing' Reveals 12-Year-Old Victim's Struggle</a></strong></p>
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Tue, 29 Apr 2014 20:17:41 -0400Richard Weizel
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/536040c669beddc157ee09ec-1200-924/milford-teen-stabbing.jpg" border="0" alt="milford teen stabbing" /></p><p>MILFORD,&nbsp;Connecticut&nbsp;(Reuters) - A 16-year-old boy charged on Tuesday as an adult with murder in the stabbing death of a female classmate before their junior prom told a police officer, "I did it. Just arrest me," according to court documents.</p>
<p>Christopher Plaskon&nbsp;of Milford,&nbsp;Connecticut, who previously was charged as a juvenile offender, was charged as an adult in a proceeding conducted at an undisclosed psychiatric center where the teen has been held since the attack, his attorney Richard Meehan, Jr., said in a statement.</p>
<p>Judge&nbsp;Frank Iannotti&nbsp;ordered Plaskon held on $3 million bail. The teen was scheduled to appear at a formal arraignment on Friday at&nbsp;Milford Superior Court.</p>
<p>Plaskon is accused of stabbing&nbsp;Maren Sanchez, 16, both juniors at&nbsp;Jonathan Law High School, inside the school in Milford, a suburban seaside town about 11 miles from New Haven and about 60 miles from New York City.</p>
<p>Police said Plaskon lacerated her neck, chest and face with a kitchen knife that was recovered at the scene. An autopsy report released on Sunday said Sanchez died of multiple stab wounds.</p>
<p>Plaskon, who was taken into custody at the school, told the arresting officer: "I did it. Just arrest me," court documents said.</p>
<p>Plaskon's family released a statement on Tuesday, expressing their "raw sadness" at the tragedy, which took place hours before the junior prom was scheduled to begin. It was canceled following the incident and will be rescheduled at a later date.</p>
<p>"Our hearts are forever broken as we, like you, struggle to understand," the Plaskon family said.</p>
<p>"In prayer, we ask for comfort for the Sanchez family and all of us so deeply affected by this tragedy. We pray for the wisdom to guide us as we desperately try to pull together the shattered pieces of our families."</p>
<p>(Editing by Lindsay Dunsmuir and G Crosse)</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/charged-as-adult-in-stabbing-death-2014-4#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/high-school-student-allegedly-stabbed-after-refusing-to-go-to-prom-with-the-attacker-2014-4High School Student Dies After Classmate Allegedly Stabs Her For Refusing His Invitation To Promhttp://www.businessinsider.com/high-school-student-allegedly-stabbed-after-refusing-to-go-to-prom-with-the-attacker-2014-4
Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:47:00 -0400Caroline Moss
<p><img src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/535a7d23eab8ea077a505e1d-1200-480/screen shot 2014-04-25 at 11.19.29 am.png" border="0" alt="Jonathan Law High School" /></p><p></p>
<p>Milford Police have confirmed that a female student who was allegedly stabbed this morning for rejecting her attacker's invitation to the prom has died from her injuries.</p>
<p>Jonathan Law High School in Milford, <span>Connecticut,</span>&nbsp;was on lockdown this morning after <a href="http://www.myfoxny.com/story/25340360/connecticut-school-stabbing">sources told local news</a> that a student had allegedly stabbed a female classmate after she had rejected his invitation to the dance.</p>
<p>The Milford Police Department confirmed the stabbing to Business Insider, saying the rest of the student body is safe and that authorities are working with school officials to investigate the incident further.&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">The student, a junior at the high school, was taken to a nearby hospital in Bridgeport where she later died from her injuries.</span></p>
<p><span><span>The police were not able to confirm that the context of the stabbing incident had to do with prom, which is scheduled for tonight, but a</span></span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://blog.ctnews.com/connecticutpostings/2014/04/25/report-student-stabbed-at-law-high-in-milford/">ccording to CTNews.com</a>,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">sources said "a boy stabbed the girl because she won&rsquo;t go to the prom with him."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">"Some students, holding hands and crying, say the girl who was stabbed was in &ldquo;really bad&rdquo; shape," <a href="http://blog.ctnews.com/connecticutpostings/2014/04/25/report-student-stabbed-at-law-high-in-milford/">reports CTNews.</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span>Jonathan Law High School Principal Fran Thompson sent a message to parents saying there was a physical altercation between two students at the school, and one student required medical attention.</span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>All students at Jonathan Law High School were dismissed at 9am.</span></span></span></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/high-school-student-allegedly-stabbed-after-refusing-to-go-to-prom-with-the-attacker-2014-4#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/stabbing-near-university-of-calgary-2014-45 People Killed At A House Party Near The University Of Calgaryhttp://www.businessinsider.com/stabbing-near-university-of-calgary-2014-4
Tue, 15 Apr 2014 13:19:00 -0400Peter Jacobs
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/534d64b86da81170747b5263-480-/university-calgary-campus-arch-1.jpg" border="0" alt="University Calgary Campus Arch" width="480" /></p><p>Five college-age people were killed at a house party near the University of Calgary last night and a suspect is in police custody, according to multiple Canadian news reports.</p>
<p>Although the university has not confirmed if the victims were students, the house party was reportedly to celebrate "Bermuda Shorts Day" &mdash; an end-of-semester event for Calgary students. Neighbors confirmed to the Calgary Herald <a href="http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/calgary/Calgary+stabbings+Police+five+killed+house+party/9739998/story.html">that the house was rented by local students</a>.</p>
<p>"The victims are reported to include four men and a woman, all in their late teens or early 20s," according to the Herald. Three people were reportedly found dead at the scene and two were transported to a hospital, where they later died.</p>
<p>Police apprehended a suspect who fled from the house, and are not currently searching for other possible killers. The <a href="http://www.calgarysun.com/2014/04/15/five-dead-in-stabbing-at-house-party-in-northwest-calgary">suspect in custody is the son of a local police officer</a>, according to the Calgary Sun.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.ucalgary.ca/">University of Calgary released the following statement</a> earlier today:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The University of Calgary is mourning the loss of five young people killed early this morning in Brentwood. The identities of the deceased have not yet been confirmed by Calgary Police Services. Once details are confirmed by Calgary Police Services, the university will provide a further statement.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/stabbing-near-university-of-calgary-2014-4#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/student-takes-selfie-after-being-injured-in-violent-pittsburgh-high-school-stabbing-2014-4Student Takes Selfie After Being Injured In Violent Pittsburgh High School Stabbinghttp://www.businessinsider.com/student-takes-selfie-after-being-injured-in-violent-pittsburgh-high-school-stabbing-2014-4
Wed, 09 Apr 2014 12:06:00 -0400Caroline Moss
<p>Twenty students at&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">Franklin Regional Senior High School in Pittsburgh were injured this morning after a classmate went on <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/09/justice/pennsylvania-school-stabbing/">a stabbing spree</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">The attacker is in custody but the motive is unknown.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">One student,&nbsp;Nate Scimio, apparently pulled the fire alarm to alert other students and faculty to the presence of the stabber. <a href="http://instagram.com/p/mkhe9QBpye/#"><span>Scimio&nbsp;</span>was apparently injured after being stabbed in the arm</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span>At the hospital, Nate took this selfie, showing that the trend of snapping selfies at anytime, anywhere hasn't seen the end of its 15 minutes just yet:</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/53456e11ecad048320c81a8b-665-714/screen shot 2014-04-09 at 11.57.29 am.png" border="0" alt="Stabbing Selfie" /><br /></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/09/justice/pennsylvania-school-stabbing/">CNN reports</a>&nbsp;more on the incident:<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/09/justice/pennsylvania-school-stabbing/"></a></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span>Victims were stabbed in their torso, abdomen, chest and back areas, and two people were sent to surgery immediately after arriving, [Dr. Chris Kaufmann] said. Those two patients had low blood pressure, he said. A third was being prepared for surgery Wednesday morning, and the rest were being evaluated to see whether surgery was necessary, he said.&nbsp;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/student-takes-selfie-after-being-injured-in-violent-pittsburgh-high-school-stabbing-2014-4#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/20-hurt-in-franklin-regional-high-school-stabbing-2014-420 Hurt At Pennsylvania High School After Stabbing Spreehttp://www.businessinsider.com/20-hurt-in-franklin-regional-high-school-stabbing-2014-4
Wed, 09 Apr 2014 09:48:00 -0400Pamela Engel
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/53454f4eeab8eaa3065cf495-480-/franklin-regional-high-school.png" border="0" alt="Franklin Regional High School" width="480" /></p><p>A male student reportedly <a href="http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2014/04/09/multiple-students-reported-stabbed-at-franklin-regional-high-school/">went on a stabbing spree</a>&nbsp;Wednesday morning at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville near Pittsburgh.</p>
<p>Twenty people were injured, most of them students.&nbsp;Four victims with serious injuries were flown by medical helicopter to area hospitals.</p>
<p>The victims' injuries are not thought to be life-threatening, emergency management official Dan Stevens said at a press conference.</p>
<p>Victims were as young as 14 years old.</p>
<p>Police have a suspect in custody who hasn't yet been identified. The suspect is believed to be a 16-year-old male student. He reportedly had two knives and stabbed students in first-floor classrooms and hallways at about 7 a.m. as students were arriving for school.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">The school district posted this message on its website:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">A critical incident has occurred at the high school. All elementary schools are canceled, the middle school and high school students are secure.</p>
<p>Students are being reunited with their families at another school, Stevens said.</p>
<p>Stevens added that it's unclear how the suspect was taken into police custody, but the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette <a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/local/westmoreland/2014/04/09/Multiple-stabbings-reported-at-Franklin-Regional-High-School/stories/201404090148">reports</a> that an assistant principal tackled him.</p>
<p>One victim reportedly posted this photo from the hospital:</p>
<p><iframe width="612" height="710" frameborder="0" src="//instagram.com/p/mkhe9QBpye/embed/"></iframe></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/20-hurt-in-franklin-regional-high-school-stabbing-2014-4#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/exorcism-mother-murder-2014-1Maryland Women Accused Of Murdering Two Children While Performing 'Exorcism'http://www.businessinsider.com/exorcism-mother-murder-2014-1
Sat, 18 Jan 2014 21:30:00 -0500Kevin Murphy
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/52db37a069bedd5531d2057c-480-/zakieya-avery-mugshot.jpg" border="0" alt="zakieya avery mugshot" width="480" /></p><p>(Reuters) - A Maryland mother and another woman charged with murdering two of the mother's small children believed they were performing an exorcism at the time of the killing, police said on Saturday.</p>
<p>The two children, Norell Harris, 1, and Zyana Harris, 2, suffered multiple stab wounds at a townhouse in Germantown, Maryland, Montgomery County Police said in a statement. Their siblings, ages 5 and 8, were injured and hospitalized, police said.</p>
<p>Zakieya Latrice Avery, 28, the mother of the four children, was charged with two counts of first degree murder and two counts of attempted first degree murder, police said on Saturday.</p>
<p>Later on Saturday, police said a second woman,Monifa Denise Sanford, 21, had also been charged with the two deaths. Sanford is believed to have lived at the Avery residence, police said.</p>
<p>The motive for the killings remains under investigation and police did not elaborate on why they believed the women were involved in an exorcism.</p>
<p>Police found the dead and injured children on Friday morning after a vehicle was reported with a door open and a knife lying outside of it, police said.</p>
<p>Officers were called to the residence the night before after a report that a child was left unattended in a car, but the child had been taken inside by the time they arrived and no one answered the door, police said.</p>
<p>Germantownis about 20 miles northwest of Washington, D.C.</p>
<p>(Reporting by Kevin Murphy; Editing by Edith Honan and Steve Orlofsky)</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/exorcism-mother-murder-2014-1#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/stabbing-ny-bus-terminal-2013-12Two People Stabbed At N.Y. Port Authority Bus Terminalhttp://www.businessinsider.com/stabbing-ny-bus-terminal-2013-12
Tue, 31 Dec 2013 21:37:00 -0500Paul Szoldra
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/52c37f416bb3f71b65d175d5-900-675/man-looks-back-long-line-street-scene-port-authority-waiting-walking-moving-looking-busy-nyc-sept-2011-business-insider-dng.jpg" border="0" alt="man looks back, long line, street scene, port authority, waiting, walking, moving, looking, busy, nyc, sept 2011, business insider, dng" /></p><p>Two men were injured Tuesday night in a <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/12/31/ems-multiple-people-injured-in-port-authority-bus-terminal-stabbing/">stabbing inside New York's Port Authority bus terminal,</a> CBS Local is reporting.</p>
<p>The station was placed on lockdown following the incident, with no one being allowed in or out.&nbsp;</p>
<p><a href="http://pix11.com/2013/12/31/multiple-people-stabbed-at-port-authority-bus-terminal/#axzz2p6uU44vd">From Pix 11:</a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span><span><span>The attack happened at about 8:30 p.m. just blocks from the crowded Times Square New Year&rsquo;s Eve celebration.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span><span><span>Police are looking for a suspect described as a Hispanic man wearing fatigues.</span></span></span></p>
<p>Police told AP that two people <a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/2-slashed-at-NYC-bus-terminal-near-Times-Square-5105791.php">were slashed in the station's main concourse.&nbsp;</a></p>
<p>The New York Daily News <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/stabbed-port-authority-melee-article-1.1562972">reported</a> the incident stemmed from&nbsp;an apparent fight which broke out inside a station bathroom. The two injured were transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to CBS.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/01/nyregion/2-stabbed-at-port-authority-bus-terminal.html">The New York Times reports:</a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span>The police were searching for a male suspect who fled the station, but no arrest had been made by about 11 p.m., said Joseph Pentangelo, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He said the weapon had not been recovered, but described the injuries as &ldquo;lacerations rather than stabs.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p>A law <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/stabbed-port-authority-melee-article-1.1562972">enforcement official told NBC4 New York</a> the assailant, who appears to be homeless, got into a fight with one or two other men who may also be homeless, before apparently slashing them with a box cutter.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/stabbing-ny-bus-terminal-2013-12#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/pregnant-army-wife-stabbed-by-intruder-while-talking-with-husband-on-facetime-2013-11Pregnant Army Wife Stabbed By Intruder While Video-Chatting With Her Deployed Husband: Survives To Give Birthhttp://www.businessinsider.com/pregnant-army-wife-stabbed-by-intruder-while-talking-with-husband-on-facetime-2013-11
Fri, 01 Nov 2013 22:00:00 -0400Amanda Macias
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/5273dabd69bedd7672afe9ab-800-/992810_196427650519932_995286514_n.jpeg" border="0" alt="992810_196427650519932_995286514_n" width="800" /></p><p>A pregnant El Paso Army wife suffered a horrible attack on Wednesday while her deployed husband watched helplessly from video chat.</p>
<p>This incident allegedly occurred when Corey Bernard Moss, a 19-year-old soldier at nearby Fort Bliss, went to the<span>&nbsp;home of 31-year-old Rachel Poole to confront her about money he owed her</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">, a</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">ccording to a police affidavit seen by&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/affidavit-pregnant-woman-stabbed-several-times-while-facetiming-husband-home-2223.shtml" target="_blank">KFOX14</a><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">She wasn't home yet, so Moss broke into her home and hid inside waiting for her return, police say.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"></span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">When Poole came home, she began a FaceTime call with her husband, Justin Poole, a U.S. Army soldier who was deployed overseas.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">Moss allegedly attacked Poole from behind with a knife.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">Rachel Poole says she immediately recognized Moss during the attack and began screaming his name to her husband. Moss allegedly beat and stabbed her repeatedly, before fleeing the scene and calling a coworker to pick him up.</span></p>
<p><span></span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">Poole was able to call 911 and was then taken to a local hospital with&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">several stab wounds and fractures to her face and body that require surgery.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span><span></span></span>El Paso Police say Moss provided a voluntary statement admitting physically assaulting Poole. Moss was arrested on a charge of criminal attempted murder and booked into El Paso County Detention Center with a bond of $60,000.</p>
<p><span>"My wife is my wife til I'm no longer breathing. No man can change that and though I was not here to protect her this time it will never happen again that's my word," Poole wrote on Facebook.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p>Fort Bliss released the following statement: "The investigation into this matter is being conducted by the El Paso Police Department and Fort Bliss is cooperating fully. We pride ourselves on the professionalism of the Soldiers within our ranks. Behavior such as these alleged actions are not representative of the men and women who serve at Fort Bliss. Our immediate concern is for the safety and welfare of the victim. We are monitoring her condition and our thoughts and prayers are with her for a full and quick recovery,"&nbsp; -Maj. Stephen G. Holt, 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command.</p>
<p><strong>Update 22:00 EDT:</strong> Rachel Poole delivered her baby Isabella this evening, while in intensive care.</p>
<p>Justin Poole, who returned to the U.S. following the incident, posted the following image on Facebook:</p>
<p><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/52745d7369bedda420c56e2f-640-1136/image-171.png" border="0" alt="rachel poole" /></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/pregnant-army-wife-stabbed-by-intruder-while-talking-with-husband-on-facetime-2013-11#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/knife-attack-in-riverside-park-new-york-2013-10Random Knife Attack On Upper West Side Leaves 4 Injuredhttp://www.businessinsider.com/knife-attack-in-riverside-park-new-york-2013-10
Tue, 01 Oct 2013 09:41:00 -0400Pamela Engel
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/524acf89eab8ea776b40fdab-480-/riverside%20park.jpg" border="0" alt="Riverside Park" width="480" /></p><p>An "emotionally disturbed man" <a href="http://www.ny1.com/content/news/189706/developing--four-stabbed-on-upper-west-side-street">stabbed four people</a>&nbsp;on Manhattan's Upper West Side Tuesday morning, NY 1 reports.</p>
<p>The victims include a 3-year-old boy, who was stabbed in the arm.</p>
<p>The attack &mdash; which occurred shortly before 8 a.m. along a bike path near West 63rd Street in Riverside Park &mdash; appears to be random, and <a href="http://gothamist.com/2013/10/01/breaking_multiple_people_stabbed_in.php">police took the suspect into custody</a>, according to Gothamist.</p>
<p>A construction worker at the scene said he witnessed a homeless man taking a pair of scissors apart and stabbing people, Gothamist reports.</p>
<p>One female victim is in serious condition. Victims were transported to local hospitals after the attack.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/knife-attack-in-riverside-park-new-york-2013-10#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/police-suspect-in-mass-stabbing-at-texas-college-fantasized-about-it-2013-4Suspect In Mass Stabbing At Texas College Says He Fantasized About It For Yearshttp://www.businessinsider.com/police-suspect-in-mass-stabbing-at-texas-college-fantasized-about-it-2013-4
Wed, 10 Apr 2013 06:39:00 -0400Juan Lozano
<p><em><img style="float:right;" src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/5165407769bedd996e000007-400-/quick.jpeg" border="0" alt="quick" width="400" />14 hurt in bloody Texas community college stabbing, 1 suspect arrested running from building</em></p>
<p>CYPRESS, Texas (AP) &mdash; Dylan Quick was a shy young man who took out the trash and gardened with his parents, neighbors thought. That image was shattered Tuesday when police accused the 20-year-old of going on a rampage with a knife at a suburban Houston community college and said he later told them he had fantasized for years about stabbing people to death.</p>
<p>The Harris County Sheriff's Office said that about 11:20 a.m. Quick began a building-to-building rampage with a razor-like knife at the Lone Star Community College System in Cypress. He wounded at least 14 people, two critically.</p>
<p>"I can't imagine what would have happened to that young man to make him do something like this. He is very normal," said Magdalena Lopez, 48, who has lived across the street from the Quick family for 15 years.</p>
<p>Quick would say hello when he took out the trash. Sometimes, he would work in the yard with his family. Neighbors, though, did note that he rarely came out alone.</p>
<p>Still, the Quicks were friendly and fit in well with the other families on the block of brick, ranch-style homes. Most were aware that Quick is deaf. A street sign, "Deaf Child In Area," was posted on the block to warn drivers.</p>
<p>"I can't believe he would do it," Lopez added.</p>
<p>But hours after the stabbing attack, Quick was charged with three counts of aggravated assault, and the statement from the sheriff's office said pieces of the blade used in the attack were found in at least one victim and at the scene of the attack. A knife handle was found in a backpack Quick was carrying when he was arrested. Authorities were seen leaving Quick's parents' home with two brown paper bags.</p>
<p>No one answered the door or the phone at the red brick home, though two vehicles were parked in the driveway, one of them a Honda Accord with a license plate that read "DYLAN." It was not immediately known if Quick has an attorney.</p>
<p>The attack began before noon on a sunny spring day, interrupting the careless chatter of Diante Cotton and his friends, who were sitting in the cafeteria when a girl clutching her neck walked in, yelling.</p>
<p>"He's stabbing people, he's stabbing people," Cotton said the girl shouted, his first indication that something was amiss on the normally tranquil campus.</p>
<p>Walking outside, Cotton and his friends saw another half-dozen people with injuries to their faces and necks. Some were being loaded into ambulances. The most critically injured were evacuated in medical helicopters.</p>
<p>"I turned around, and there was just blood &mdash; just blood dripping down the stairs, all over the floor, all over everyone's towels, on their necks, just a lot of blood," Melody Vinton told KHOU-TV.</p>
<p>The attacker ran past Vinton, she said, as she was leaving her chemistry class. He was stabbing people, she said, one after another, always aiming for the neck or face.</p>
<p>"There's no humanity in that. Just to see another human being do that was more traumatic than anything," Vinton said.</p>
<p>Vinton and other students in the science building rushed to help the victims until emergency crews arrived.</p>
<p>Michelle Alvarez tried to back away when she saw Quick running toward students. She didn't even feel it as he swiped her.</p>
<p>"He came running and swinging at my neck, as I tried to get out of the way," she told the Houston Chronicle.</p>
<p>It remains unclear how long the attack lasted, but Lone Star college officials said they locked down the campus shortly after 11:30 a.m. Students described phones going off informing them of the lockdown. Some stayed in class until they were dismissed. Others went out to the hallways, where they were evacuated to their cars.</p>
<p>The sheriff's office said Quick told them he had fantasized about stabbing people to death since elementary school and had planned the attack for some time.</p>
<p>But Michael Lincoln, who lives next door, said Quick had never been aggressive, making the accusations even more shocking.</p>
<p>"If he's outside, he speaks to me, 'Hey neighbor, how you doing?'" Lincoln said.</p>
<p>Elva Garcia, 46, who lives two houses down from the Quicks, described him as a nice young man who stayed out of trouble and only came outside with his parents. She saw him, she said, just this past weekend, working with his parents in the front yard.</p>
<p>"We can't even believe it. What motive would he have?" Garcia said.</p>
<p>The attack came three months after a different Lone Star campus was the site of a shooting in which two people were hurt. The suspected gunman in that incident is charged with aggravated assault.</p>
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<p>Associated Press writers Nomaan Merchant, Terry Wallace and David Warren in Dallas contributed to this report.</p>
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<p><img class="nc_pixel" src="http://pixel.newscred.com/px.gif?key=YXJ0aWNsZT04NTYzMjgyNzhkZDRhNWQ2ZTgzYzZiZjNmNmY0MjVkMCZvd25lcj1hMWQzNjMzZjJkNWM5Y2U3ZWZiOGQ2OWU5NTQ4YTVjZiZub25jZT1hMzY3OTFiZC04OGM0LTRlN2QtOTBlMi1mY2I1OGI5NDY2N2QmcHVibGlzaGVyPThjMDBmYmVlNjFkNWJjZjBjNjA5MmQ4YjkyZWJiY2Ex" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/at-least-14-stabbed-at-texas-college-2013-4" >14 Stabbed At A Texas Community College</a></strong></p>
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Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:00:00 -0400Michael B Kelley
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5164621f6bb3f79218000008-400-/lone-star-stabbing-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Lone Star Stabbing " width="400" />Fourteen people have been stabbed at</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> a campus of </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Lone Star Community College in Texas, according to paramedics and </span><a href="http://www.click2houston.com/news/Several-stabbed-at-Lone-Star-College/-/1735978/19678282/-/vjcbkx/-/index.html">reported by </a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://www.click2houston.com/news/Several-stabbed-at-Lone-Star-College/-/1735978/19678282/-/vjcbkx/-/index.html">KPRC Houston</a>.</span></p>
<p><span>The male assailant, who <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/14-people-stabbed-lone-star-community-college-texas/story?id=18915596#.UWRhG6tETwH">appeared</a> to be a <span>student wearing all black and hearing aids,</span> has been arrested.</span></p>
<p>From&nbsp;<a href="http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/national_world&amp;id=9058449">the Associated Press</a>:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">According to police, 14 people were stabbed; four were transported by Life Flight to Memorial Hermann and two were taken by ground ambulance to Memorial Hermann. The rest were taken to North Cypress Hospital. Two people refused treatment.</p>
<p><span><span><span>A witness </span><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/14-people-stabbed-lone-star-community-college-texas/story?id=18915596#.UWRhG6tETwH">told ABC News</a><span> affiliate KTRK-TV that several students were stabbed in the face and neck.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span>From <a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Suspect-detained-in-Lone-Star-College-campus-4420907.php#photo-4444457">The Houston Chronicle</a>:</span></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Michelle Alvarez&nbsp;saw the attacker running toward other students and tried to back out of the way. She said she didn't even feel it as he swiped her neck. There was a small red line running down her wind pipe.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">"He came running and swinging at my neck, as I tried to get out of the way," she said.</p>
<p><span>KPRC Houston&nbsp;reported that&nbsp;the assailant used an <a href="http://www.xacto.com/products/cutting-solutions/knives.aspx">X-Acto knife</a> &mdash; <span>a short, sharp </span>blade<span> mounted on a </span>pen<span>-like body that is normally used for </span>crafting<span> and </span>hobbies.</span></p>
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<p><span><span>An emergency bulletin was initially said that two armed suspects were on campus, but police now believe there was only one attacker running from building to building&nbsp;</span><span>before a student tackled and helped subdue the suspect</span><span>.</span></span></p>
<p><span>The incident occurred at about 11:20 a.m. at <span>the health sciences building.</span></span></p>
<p><span>Police say that the campus</span><span>, which&nbsp;serves about 19,000 students and&nbsp;is north of Houston,&nbsp;is now safe. The Chronicle notes that&nbsp;<span>investigators are trying to determine motive, but at this point the victims appear to be randomly chosen.</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>The AP notes that three months ago there was a shooting at another Lone Star campus<span>&nbsp;in which two people were hurt and the suspected gunman was charged with aggravated assault.</span></span></span></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/at-least-14-stabbed-at-texas-college-2013-4#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/lulu-and-leo-fund-on-facebook-2013-1Parents Of Children Killed On Upper West Side Memorialize Their Kids Through Facebook Fundhttp://www.businessinsider.com/lulu-and-leo-fund-on-facebook-2013-1
Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:58:17 -0500Abby Rogers
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/50ec1dcc6bb3f7d479000002-401-300/lulu-leo-krim-fund.jpg" border="0" alt="lulu leo krim fund" width="401" height="300" /></p><p>The parents of two children allegedly killed by their nanny in New York City last year are using their loss as an avenue for change through a new <a class="hidden_link" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/facebook">Facebook</a> fund.</p>
<p>In a horrific tragedy that rocked the city, the two children, <a class="hidden_link" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/lulu-1">Lulu</a> and <a class="hidden_link" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/leo">Leo</a> Krim, were <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/two-children-allegedly-killed-by-nanny-on-upper-west-side-2012-10">found fatally stabbed</a> in October in their family's Upper West Side apartment.</p>
<p>And now parents Marina and <a class="hidden_link" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/kevin-krim">Kevin Krim</a> have created the Lulu &amp; Leo Fund, which "<a href="https://www.facebook.com/lululeofund">seeks to raise money</a> for children's education and enrichment programs" in memory of their children, according to the fund's Facebook page.</p>
<p>The Krims go into more detail about their <a href="http://lululeofund.org/">new initiative on the fund's website</a>.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"As the parents of Lulu and Leo, we want to honor our children through carrying on their love of arts and sciences education," the parents say. "Unfortunately, there are many children who do not have access to these programs. We created the Lulu &amp; Leo Fund to help more children benefit from these education experiences in art and science."</p>
<p>The Krims have also used the page to chronicle their lives as they cope with their childrens' deaths.</p>
<p>In a post titled Daughter, Kevin Krim explained why he chose the song "Daughter" by Loudon Wainwright to open Lulu and Leo's memorial service:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span class="text_exposed_show">I love this line in particular: "Everything she wants, I see she gets."<br /> <br /> When I first held Lulu, swaddled up like a little burrito, in the delivery room and her huge eyes looked into mine, I fell so deeply in love with her. It was like nothing I'd ever felt. I joked out loud that she'd already got me to agree to a new car on her 16th birthday. Silently, I had promised her I'd do anything for her.<br /> <br /> I believe the Lulu &amp; Leo Fund is something she wants. I believe Lulu and Leo are very happy to be inspiring and teaching people.</span></p>
<p>The Krims also use the memorial page to celebrate their surviving daughter Nessie.</p>
<p>Nessie, who turned 4 on Dec. 28, has "grown so much over the past two months," Kevin Krim wrote on the Facebook page. "She saves us every day."</p>
<p>The children's nanny Yoselyn Ortega was <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/upper-west-side-nanny-charged-2012-11">charged with first-degree murder</a> in November in connection to the deaths.</p>
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